What’s happening on Nov. 28, 2013, that isn’t going to happen again for another 79,000 or so years? It’s the convergence of two holidays–Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.

It’s being called Thanukkah by some and Thanksgivukkah by others. (The latter is a term copyrighted by Dana Gitell who also started the Thanksgivukkah Facebook page.)

Naturally, savvy merchandisers have come up with products to celebrate this “once in a lifetime event.”

There is the Menurky–a melding of menorah and turkey into, of course, a menorah in the shape of a turkey.

Asher Weintraub, a 9-year-old fourth-grader in New York City, came up with the concept and then made sketches of a prototype on Tinkercad, a 3D modeling platform.

With help from his parents, who raised $48,345 with Kickstarter, it went from prototype to production, in a choice of white or blue and plaster or ceramic finish for $50. (Unfortunately for those wanting one, they had to be ordered by Nov. 19 to assure delivery.)

The menurkey.com website also offers Menurkey logo T-shirts for $20; an iMenurkey app you can use to virtually light the Menurky; and the “Hanukkah O Hanukkah (Introducing the Menurkey!)” song by the Dirty Sock Funtime Band, downloadable at iTunes.

There was also a one-of-a-kind turkey menorah metal sculpture dubbed a Menurkiah on eBay for $689.

A particularly charming tribute song is “The Ballad of Thanksgivukkah” written by Rabbi David Pashkin of Boston and performed by the students of Kehillah Schechter Academy. You’ll find it on YouTube.

Greeting cards from modern tribe.com include a dreidel atop a turkey and a parody of Grant Wood’s American Gothic with the woman in Pilgrim dress and the man sporting a beard and an Orthodox Jewish hat and holding a menorah-shaped pitchfork. Each card says “Happy Thanksgivukkah 2013” and a set of 10 cards, five of each design, is $18.

The same website offers other Thanksgivukkah card styles, posters and T-shirts.

The foiledagainchocolates.com website offers bags of 100 Thanksgivukkah chocolate coins, known as gelt, wrapped in gold foil for $24.

However, don’t expect to find any Thanksgivukkah items at Alef Bet, the Judaica store in Los Gatos.

Owner Nurit Sabadosh considered it but says, “I opted not to get them.

“I didn’t know how people would react, and I didn’t want to get stuck. This is once in a lifetime, and if it doesn’t sell this year, then it’s there forever.”

Sabadosh does say customers have been discussing the overlap, and she suggests people be creative and do something on their own.

One customer confided that she had planned to serve sweet potato latkes, but her children objected.

For those who need inspiration, there’s plenty to be found on the Internet.

The PJ Library blog (pjlibrary.org) has an Oct. 10 entry filled with crafts for children, including how to make a menorah using mini pumpkins; a link to the Better Homes & Gardens website with instructions on making Hanukkah napkin rings out of wire and beads; and a link to the Menurky website.

As food is an important part of both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, it’s no surprise there are plenty of inspired Thanksgivukkah recipes out there.

Buzzfeed and Yahoo both offer recipes for Manischewitz-brined roast turkey.

Yahoo also has pumpkin challah, sweet potato latkes and a variation on sufganiyot, the popular jelly donuts but made with challah dough and cranberry jelly.

For those making a pie with a lattice top, it’s possible to layer the strips to form Stars of David. And cookie cutters can be used to make a mix of traditional Thanksgiving and Hanukkah shapes–consider sprinkling blue crystals on the turkeys and orange sprinkles on the dreidel.

Macy’s traditional Thanksgiving Parade is acknowledging the overlapping holidays with a three-story balloon in the shape of a dreidel, joining the more commercial balloons of Ronald McDonald and the Pillsbury Doughboy.

The Silicon Valley Turkey Trot run will have at least one nod to Thanksgivukkah with some of the staff, faculty, parents and children of Yavneh Day School in Los Gatos banding together to participate in its costume contest category.

“We’re dressing up as a group menorah,” says Diana Wilmot, admissions director for Yavneh.

The tallest person will represent the shamash candle at the center, with four others on each side, all dressed as candles.

Sixth-grader Amanda Pohland has designed a special T-shirt for the entrants to wear as part of their costumes. Beyond that, Wilmot is staying mum about the rest of their costume.

Yavneh elementary students will be making menorahs out of mini pumpkins as a craft. The middle school students are going to explore the mathematical and scientific underpinning of how and why this convergence of the two holidays is taking place in 2013.

Additionally, at the school’s Nov. 22 Shabbat ceremony, there will be a concert with classical pianist Caroline Menipaz and student violinists that will honor both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.

While it’s getting a lot of Internet attention, most celebrations of Thanksgivukkah in Silicon Valley are being left to individuals.

Rabbi Josh Berkenwald of Congregation Sinai in Willow Glen says a case can be made that the two holidays share a theme of freedom.

“Hanukkah is really a festival of freedom, when the Jewish community was under threat of a dominant Greek culture trying to make the practice of Judaism illegal,” he says.

“It was the first time in history a particular religious group was targeted for eradication. Hanukkah was about resisting that, and ultimately, they won,” he says. “We see it as a festival of religious freedom, and it may thematically tie into the idea of Thanksgiving because it’s about people fleeing from Europe in search of religious freedom.”

Berkenwald says that while his congregation will be celebrating both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, there are no plans for doing anything special this year.

The one major public celebration of Hanukkah is the annual Menorah lighting at Santana Row shopping center.

In the past it’s taken place at the beginning of Hanukkah, but this year it takes place on the final night of Hanukkah, Dec. 4, from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

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